National reform programme 2008-2010 Malta - European Commission

Objective No.
Output
September 2008 – December 2008
1.1 Hold a national stakeholder conference on future skills needs
1.4 Expand workplace learning through supporting employers to train their
employees in both generic and specific skills through a revised Training Aid
Framework open to all firms irrespective of size and sector
2.10 Launch of an Employment Aid programme to provide a wage subsidy for a
limited number of weeks to employers recruiting persons from certain
disadvantaged groups
4.11 Review the current employment-related enforcement structures with a view
to a better-targeted, coordinated and effective framework
Jan – June 2009
4.4 Draw up an information brochure on the implications of holding multiple
part-time jobs, and to distribute through the public employment service to
those holding two or more part-time jobs
4.5 Draw up an information brochure on one’s rights and obligations as a fixedterm
employee
2.8 Study the feasibility of extending the current legal provision allowing
jobseekers to enter work experience schemes for up to twelve weeks
without loss of benefits, to 26 weeks
4.6 Consider introducing an incremental increase in the period that persons
found working while registering, have to spend in declared employment
before being able to register once more – from six months in the first
instance, to twelve months for a second time, to eighteen months for a third,
and so on
4.7 Increase the penalty period for persons who fail to participate in an
activation measure, without just cause for three or more times, from six
months on Part 2 of the Register to twelve months on Part 2 of the Register
2.3 Provide training courses targeted at women returners to the workplace, in
personal and occupational skills and in areas of labour market shortage
2.4 Launch occupational standards of competence and define the basis for their
accreditation with a view to validating all forms of learning including nonformal
and informal learning
2.5 Strengthen the public employment service’s capacity to provide training in
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